BURSTING OF A DAM.
(by electric telegraph.— copyright.) Washington, February 27A courier, reports that the town of Wickenburg, reported as having been washed away by the bursting of a dam at Prescott, is safe, but forty persons have been drowned between the township and the dam. The Prescott reservoir was pollen by rain. W It is probable the liumbir ol deaths will exceed 100. The damage amounts to a million of dollars. The death-roll by the Prescott catastrophe has reached 150.^ Nearly every building in the valley below the Prescott reservoir, for a distance of a hundred miles, was destroyed by the bursting of the reservoir. Amongst the townships devastasted are Wickenberg, Seymour, and other villages. The dam was one of the largest in America, The flood resembled a wall of water forty feet high.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2751, 1 March 1890, Page 2
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135BURSTING OF A DAM. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2751, 1 March 1890, Page 2
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